America has a right to be a leader. This leadership should be realized through partnership, not domination.

I believe in the cosmos. All of us are linked to the cosmos.

Sometimes, the decisions have to be taken in minutes, even seconds, and there would be no time to make the right decision. We understood that this could have ended in catastrophe.

The forests of Russia and Brazil are the lungs of the Earth.

It is really important to solve the problem of rational utilization and distribution of wate supplies. I dare say, the shortage of fresh water is the major ecological problem of this moment.

I certainly wouldn't say that we loved the arms race. Trillions of dollars were used to stoke it. For our economy, which was smaller in size than the American economy, it was a burden. But one cannot agree with the statement that the arms race played the key role in the collapse of the Soviet Union.

History is a capricious creature. It depends on who writes it.